Portland Observer Thursday, September 7, 1978 Page 3
t Black? ( Was Snow White white? )
W h ite Comedian* in Black Face.
Nothing chongos bot 'The nomo of the gome’
by McKinley Burt
Well, was Snow White white? The
best approach to an examination o f a
subject o f this nature is firs t to
establish a later and more familiar
framework o f reference, and, then,
allow the reader to determine that
the obvious is indeed obvious!
The visit of the treesures of
King Tutankhamen to the United
States was an opportunity to see
a part of the heritage of Bieck
Americene. However, the feet
that the King was Black is e well
guarded secret, depriving ell
Americans of the opportunity to
study end appreclete the con
tribution of Black people to
western civilization.
Those o f us who have relied upon
the alleged in te g rity o f many
historians have been treated not
u n lik e the 19th-century theatre
crowds in Ireland. O f all the white
American minstrel shows that reaped
fortunes in Europe with their Black
face im itations o f A fro-A m erican
song and dance, none were more
successful than the old Christy M in
strels who came to Dublin, Ireland in
1859 (we now have the new Christy
Minstrels).
The Black a rtis ts w ho fled
American slavery to find economic
opportunity in Europe were soon to
discover that, as usual, the master
HOWTO
HABIT.
Relax.
A t a W eight W atchers"
m e e tin g y o u 'll learn
h ow to deal w ith
stress w ith o u t e atin g
your w ay o ut of it.
Join a m e e tin g today.
The Authority
J O IN A N Y C L A S S A N Y T IM E !
Carpenter* Hall
2226 N. Lombard St.
Mon. 7:00p .m
Thur* 9:30a.m .
Emanuel Hospital
2801 N Gantenbein
Emanuel East, Hoorn 8 1
Thur*. 7:00p.m .
Maranatha Church
1222 N.E. Skidmore
Sat 9:30a.m
For further information call Collect Portland
(6031 297 1021. W eekdays
8:30 6:30
YOU’RE THIS CLOSE
TO LOSING WEIGHT
V»
was one step behind, determined to
continue his exploitations and theft.
And this happened despite the warn
ings . . . to the Irish theatre-going
public by ‘ Freemans Journal’ that
they should wait and see. . .
“
A practical company o f real
niggers with genuine woolly heads
and skins o f sable that could not be
washed white. " (Cambridge Univer
sity Journal, 1973 — Locally, at Port
land State University Library.)
W ith the fo u n d in g o f the
Eighteenth Dynasty, the beginning
o f the New K ingdom w ith the
Africans driving the Hyksos invaders
back to Asia (1567 B.C.), the most
spectacular era in w orld h isto ry
began. F o rty centuries later
Napoleon standing before the Great
Pyramid cried out to his soldiers and
scholars, “ Behold The greatness that
looks down upon you!” — and they
prom ptly proceeded to load their
ships w ith the treasures o f
m athem atics, science, je w e lry,
astronomy, furniture, clothing styles
and whatever else they could lay their
greedy hands upon, carting it all o ff
to Europe to form the basic collec
tio n o f the recently established
Louvre Museum. T heir booty, in
fact, sparked a second Renaissance
in all o f the above disciplines and
crafts. And you “ behold ,” dear
reader, the empire style o f furniture
and dress and the p o la r to rec
tangular coordinates o f the Pyra
m id called M odern p ro je c tiv e
mathematics. (For this era o f Tut-o-
mania see, Sewell, ‘ Egypt Under The
Pharaohs’ ; Zudwig, ‘Napoleon’) and
so we come to meet the genius o f the
dynasty o f King T ut, the civilized
w orld coming to fu ll flow er here
among the melanin and sickle-cell
saturated stone masons o f the Nile,
not among the p itifu l baked-mud
structures o f some strained and racist
concept o f a near Eastern “ Fertile
Crescent” . Does a Milwaukee High
School basketball team belong on the
same court as the Harlem Globetrot
ters? ‘ Freeman’s Journal* said no to
this proposition in Ireland last cen
tury. (See Diop, ‘African Origin of
C ivilization’ ; Marius Fontaes, ‘ Les
Egyptes’ .)
But the lie is put down because o f
this 1803 expedition to A fric a by
Napoleon for the prime purpose of
securing these treasures (an entire
ship was devoted to scholars, ar
chaeologists, scientists, engineers,
artists, and mathematicians) — and,
only incidently to fight the British,
albeit unsuccessfully. In consequence
neither King Tut, nor his magnificent
woolly-haired, sable-skinned tribe
and their seminal outpourings o f
technical and cultural genius can ever
be “ washed w hite” by peripatetic
new minstrels.
On this tour, and even more em
phatically, at The Louvre and British
Museums, you w ill see that almost
every statue, bust, stele and
engraving has the fu ll-lip p e d ,
alm ond-eyed, s o ft nosed, lo n g
headed, b ig -fo o te d , steatopygic
behind (protruding butt) attributes
o f the African Presence. (See Carter,
‘ The Tom b o f T utankham en*;
B u lle tin o f The M e tro p o lita n
Museum o f A rt: ‘The Egyptian Ex
pedition, 1925-27’ .)
I f this is not enough — and there
are some whose behavior has been so
modified by these deliberate racist
omissions from our history, that they
cannot perceive the w hite upon
grains o f rice — then, I next shall
solicit testimony from the vaunted
Greeks who surely at this early time
(for them — 1500 B.C.) . . . must
have suffered
fro m
massive
hemorrhoids, sitting around upon
their stones while King Tut and his
folks hung out on canopied beds
w ith fine linens, on m agnificent
chaise lounges and comfortable, con
toured chairs and thrones. A nd,
when sipping brews on the patio, en
sconced their ample (stc-ato-py-gic)
behinds in the folds o f canvas
covered, folding lawn furniture.
But you may see all o f this for
yourself at the King Tut Exhibit.
What was happening in Greece and
the rest o f Europe at the time? I
suggest that the reader check at the
public library: Richter, G. ‘ The Fur
niture o f the Greeks, Estruscans and
Romans,’ Loridon, Phaidon Press,
1966 — and then — when you have
finished giggling, take a gratifying
trip through the pages o f Baker,
Hollis S. ‘ Furniture in the Ancient
W o rld : O rigins and E v o lu tio n s,
3100-475 B .C .,’ N .Y ., M acM illan,
1965. And there it is; the African
craftsmen o f what many students are
beginning to call the ‘ Big-Bad-Black
18th D ynasty’ also invented the
tongue and groove jo in t — • the rab
bet and m iter — the mortise and
tenon — and on, ad infintum (well,
o f course they did, that’s the way the
fu rn itu re in the E x h ib it is put
together).
NOW FOR THE
GREEK TESTIM ONY
A. “ He (Theuth or Thoth), they
proved was the first to invent num
bers and arithmetic, and geometry
and astronomy, draughts moreover .
. . and above all letters! Now the
whole o f Egypt, A frica at that time
was under the sway o f the God
Tham us, who resided near the
capital city o f the upper regions
(Nubia) which the Greeks call Egyp
tian Thebes . . . the God himself they
call A m m o n .” (P la to in ‘ The
Phaedrus’ , page 77: Socrates
speaks.)
B. " . . . I ought to warn you that
you must not be surprised i f you
should hear Greek names being given
to foreigners” (Africans). “ Solon . .
made an investigation in to the
meaning o f names, and found that
the early Egyptians in writing them
down, had translated them into their
own language . . . therefore if you
hear names (in A frica) such as a rj
used in this country (Greece) you
must not be surprised . . . ”
(Plato in the Timaeus: Critics ad
dresses Socrates.)
C. l “ The caste o f interpreters is in
several respects, remarkable. It arose
in the period o f Psammetichus . . .
He left a considerable number o f
Egyptian children in Greece to have
them instructed in the Greek
language and manners.
(Herodotus, Book II, 154)
C.2 “ There was national dislike o f
these innovations . . . these Greek-
educated children with Greek names,
were no longer regarded as forming
part o f the A fric a n nation . . .
nothing was left fo r them but to
form a separate caste o f themselves.
(Herodotus, Book II, 178,179.)
It is readily apparent that the
deliberate om ission o f these
documented facts from American
classrooms,
text books,
en
cyclopedias, movies, television, and
all other forms o f instructive com
m unications could not help but
achieve its goal — to produce large
numbers o f the public so thoroughly
brainwashed (many Black as well as
white) that they are able to look right
at King Tut and his peers and not
perceive that i f the 18th Dynasty
were in the United States today they
would be red-lined from the better,
‘ leverage’ real estate, need Small
Business A d m in istra tio n ‘ guaran
teed’ loan to finance a plant to
manufacture the furniture they in
vented, and then would have to beg
the craft unions w ith their ‘ white
male’ only constitutions to permit a
quota (goal) o f their relatives to
work.
It is not d iffic u lt to project that
within a short time a reporter would
be inquiring in a network interview
“ M r. Tut, how is it that in this land
o f opportunity, so many o f your
people are on welfare, just plain
don’ t want to work? And, this thing
about your I.Q ., we’ re beginning to
th in k th a t, app a re n tly, you are
uneducable . . . there is a strong
correlation . . . and crime! . . . No,
we w ill not discuss the ‘ G .S .A .’ , I ’m
in control here!”
Now, the citations I have given
from the Greek, A and B, are self-
explanatory on th e ir face, the
‘ A frican O rigin o f C iviliza tio n ’ is
real, not fancied. Citations C, and
C2 are a different matter. For they
deal with what is close to being the
most tragic disaster that the Black . .
race has ever suffered: A loss o f
African identity that not only per
mitted the easy obfuscation o f the
true ethnic background o f King Tut
' and the other giants o f the great 18th
Dynasty. They range from w orld
shaping Queen Hatshepsut who gave
the best o f modern cities their clean,
urban panorama, the first to hire city
gardeners and to specify fountains,
parks and soaring, tree-lined
boulevards — to precedent-setting
Akhraten who dared not only to
close down the polytheistic shop o f a
score o f com peting deities, but
moved the action down the pike to
his own base where he established the
then m ind-boggling concept that
(Please turn to Page 8 Column I)
Notice
Thothmes III, called "Alexander
the Great of Ancient Egypt" reigned
from 1500 to 1445 B C. The great
warrior had Kushite affinities, but
his family lived in Sudan before he
ascended to the throne.
The C om m unity C o a litio n fo r
School Integration is currently spon
soring a series o f seven Community
Forums to 1) share new findings, 2)
hear citiz e n ’ s responses and ,
discuss possibilities for recommen
dations. The first two forums w ill be
at Franklin High School Cafeteria,
September 11th and at Grant High
School Cafeteria, September 13th,
7:30 p.m.
To see how he would look in
modern dress, a student drew this
picture of Thothmes III — a com
posite from photos of the statue and
his mummy. (From Ebony Magazine)
"Ancient Egypt," Alexander Cham
berlain said, "knew (the Negro) bond
and free, his blood flowed in the
veins of not a few of the mighty
Pharaohs."
H. Vacuum values.
Saia and* Saturday, Saptambar 6.
Powerhead sale !
C hoose the features, price you want.
$ 1
5 o ff.
Wards upright vacuum
deep-cleans your rugs.
64
88
Regularly
79.95
• Beater-bar brush pounds out
dirt as it fluffs carpet nap
• Head adjusts to 4 pile heights
• 3-pos handle for easy reach
• Toe touch on/off switch
$3 0 o f f .
Powerhead vac with
peak 2-hp cleans deep.
•
•
•
•
139H“1'
Beater-bar pounds, combs nap
Adjusts to any carpet height
3 filters help prevent clogs
Convenient auto cord rewind
A ll have dual edge-
c le a n e r to sweep
carpet close to walls
$2 0 o f f .
Wards new 16-inch wide
stroke upright vacuum.
•
•
•
•
179?i
Cleans
more in 1 stroke.
Beater bar beats out dirt
Adjusts to any height
6.0 amp power plus motor
C o m p a re
S a v e ’5
Ward* 2-motor powerhead
has toa-touch on/off.
Peak 1.8-hp canister
vacuum, accaaaoriaa.
For cleaning ev- C y f 88
$*VQ
/ O
P e a k * lt k - h p .
Brush roller, car-
ry in g h a n d le , W ard s low
furn guard.
pries
1
IT C A N ’T W AIT? APPLY FOR A C H A R G -A LL ACCO UNT
If you plug it in, we have it.
• JANTZEN BEACH 283-4411,V ANC. 693-1406
• BEAVERTON Phone 646-7212
• MALL 205 Phone 255-8200
/
erything on or
above floor, even Rsg.
shag rug*.
St.95
«-“ I
M ONTGOM ERY
a LONGVIEW (206) 425-2930
a SALEM Phone 363-3191
• EUGENE Phone 485-0611